Kyle Kluherz studies semiconductor nanocrystals for various solar photochemistry applications. Kyle studied the local site structure of lanthanide dopants in lead halide perovskites and the unique structure of iodide elpasolite nanocrystals. At NREL, he is working on understanding the structure-property relationships in doped semiconductor nanomaterials, dimer nanoparticles, and chiral perovskite nanocrystals. 
 
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Research Interests

Semiconductor nanocrystals

Lead halide perovskites

Electronic dopants in semiconductor nanocrystals

Local structure in doped and undoped nanomaterials 

Education

Ph.D., Physical Inorganic Chemistry, University of Washington

M.S., Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines

B.S., Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines

Professional Experience

Science Graduate Student Research Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2019–2020) 

Research Assistant, University of Washington (2017–2023) 

Research and Development Intern, Rio Tinto Minerals (2016) 

Associations and Memberships

Member, American Chemical Society 

Member, Materials Research Society 

Featured Work

Structure and Stability of the Iodide Elpasolite, Cs₂AgBiI₆, Chemistry of Materials (2023)
 
Defect Structure in Quantum-Cutting Yb³+ -Doped CsPbCl₃ Perovskites Probed by X-ray Absorption and Atomic Pair Distribution Function Analysis, Physical Review Materials (2022)
 
Direct Patterning of Perovskite Nanocrystals on Nanophotonic Cavities with Electrohydrodynamic Inkjet Printing, Nano Letters (2022)
 
Two-Dimensional van der Waals Nanoplatelets with Robust Ferromagnetism, Nano Letters (2020)
 
Anion Exchange and the Quantum-Cutting Energy Threshold in Ytterbium-Doped CsPb(Cl_1–xBr_x)₃ Perovskite Nanocrystals, Nano Letters (2019)
 
Microcolumn Lanthanide Separation Using Bis-(2-ethylhexyl) Phosphoric Acid Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Materials, Journal of Chromatography A (2019)

Electroreduction as a Facile Method for One-Pot Synthesis of CuZSM-5 Nanostructures, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects (2018)

Awards and Honors

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award (2019) 

Mikey and Karen Schurr Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry (2017) 

University of Washington Excellence in Chemistry Graduate Fellowship Award (2017)

Outstanding Master's Thesis in Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines (2017)